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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kar-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkær i



Definition of carries back

Origin :
  • c.1600, "vehicle for carrying," from carry (v.). U.S. football sense attested by 1949.
  • As in return : verb give back, send back
Example sentences :
  • This carries back the traditional discovery of salt to the age when blood was first forbidden as food.
  • Extract from : « The Covenant of Salt » by Henry Clay Trumbull
  • A link is thus supplied which carries back the history to the animistic and mythological periods, in this case, prehistoric.
  • Extract from : « Nature Mysticism » by J. Edward Mercer
  • Olga, the Russian Princess, baptized at Constantinople; she carries back into her own country some beginnings of civilization.
  • Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 » by Various
  • The castle, though it carries back its history to early in the thirteenth century, makes little figure in history.
  • Extract from : « The Rivers of Great Britain: Rivers of the East Coast » by Various
  • We thus see how thoroughly Leibniz carries back all the properties of bodies to motion.
  • Extract from : « Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding » by John Dewey
  • It carries back my thoughts to a time of misery, to which distance, instead of soothing it into apathy, only adds a new sting.
  • Extract from : « Jane Talbot » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • One of the masters then carries back his valet, and leaving him on the bank, rows over the third master.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 » by Various
  • And thus in this transfusion of life there is an undertow that carries back into his own life and makes his spirit more fertile.
  • Extract from : « The Vitalized School » by Francis B. Pearson
  • He falls a victim to the fashionable vice, and carries back to his hitherto untainted home the lethal influence he has imbibed.
  • Extract from : « Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations » by William Howe
  • He then carries back his bride amid the cheers and cries of his friends, and in the evening there is a feast.
  • Extract from : « Through the Heart of Patagonia » by H. Hesketh Prichard

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